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Gen Z Announces Julie Andrews Is Problematic But Refuses To Explain Why (www.theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Is the Babylon Bee leaking?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't disconnect the song Edelweiss from "Man in the High Castle." Gives me the creeps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I can't help singing "Anal Vice, Anal Vice, use it.to pop your hemeroids... every time I hear edelweiss, childish but releases the creepiness

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is this a reference to the song "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" Or is there some other joke I'm missing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The joke is "Gen z stereotypically finds many things problematic but won't explain why when asked because 'you should already know'" mentality held by many in older generations is being satirized by the Onion.

However I literally just watched sound of music last week and I didn't even make that connection!

" problematic" lmao Mother Abbot probably wrote the article.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, she definitely is.

[–] HerbalGamer 1 points 9 months ago

Great minds think alike.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Julie Andrews did black face in Mary Poppins. That's the only thing I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is the chimney sweep routine really blackface, or is it just classist humor at the expense of impoverished white people who had the shittiest job outside of coal mining?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Nuance is dead

[+] [email protected] -8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

The original novel had a racist element to the chimney sweeps. The film departs from that, but its source material is about as racist for what you would expect of a novel from that time period. There was some minor controversy where some English professor accused the film of racism: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mary-poppins-racist/

That said, I refuse to ever say anything that might be construed as defending racism in any form, and suggesting that a work of art exists as a cultural artifact of often contested ideological beliefs of the time and place it was created, possessing creative merits independent of its source material or even particular one-off attributes that may have aged poorly when viewed in the light of contemporary discourse, comes dangerously close to outright apologia in the eyes of your more insufferable pearl clutchers on the internet.

So, yeah, Mary Poppins is definitely racist. Why? Well, it's not my job to educate you, that's why.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"I am right because i am."

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"You can tell that I'm right because of the way I am."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you realize the whole second paragraph of your comment is one sentence…

(the extra . are in case you need them)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I take it you're not a José Saramago fan?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hard to be a fan of someone you’ve never heard of. Did he invent the run on sentence?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, but he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 and his writing style emphasizes famously long sentences, some of them stretching for pages.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So he popularized the run on sentence, got it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eh, you'll probably like him once you read him. They teach his books a lot in high school English, so you'll maybe get some exposure in...I'm gonna guess 5 years or so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Passive aggressiveness, nice!

I won’t be reading his works, mostly because I prefer authors that use proper English grammar.

Buck up kiddo, you’ll get ‘em next time!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Passive aggressiveness, nice!

That's not passive aggressiveness; it's condescension. Passive aggressiveness would be like hiding a spouse's favorite condiments after an argument or intentionally being late to a meeting with someone you don't like. It's being indirectly mean or hurtful. I'm very direct, by comparison.

I won’t be reading his works, mostly because I prefer authors that use proper English grammar.

A truly fascinating hill to die on. I'm gonna bet you're a BIG Brandon Sanderson and J. K. Rowling fan. Maybe a little Stephen King if you want to be adventurous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I mean, it’s really not. It’s just a preference. I’m not at all familiar with Brandon Sanderson. I’ve never read J. K. Rowling but am familiar due to pop culture. I read some Stephen King years ago. Don’t remember what all besides The Stand and The Dark Tower.

Given your concern over my reading habits, you must be a librarian?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That's a long ass sentence

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Not everything has to be sociology homework mate, go and dig a trench or something.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

Okay homophobe